How it works

Track your time against the price you agreed.

Set a price for each phase, log your hours, and see what the work pays you per hour. Here is how a project runs, from setup to the client report.

Free during the beta · Every Pro feature · No credit card

A project and its phases, each with a budget and the hours logged against it.

Most time trackers only count your hours.

They don't tell you whether the project earned what you quoted. You work that out afterwards, usually in a spreadsheet.

Phased puts the agreed price on the project from day one, and checks every hour you log against it while the work is still running.

How it fits together

Every hour belongs to a project, a phase and a task.

Set a project up once: its phases, what each phase costs, and the tasks inside them. From then on, every hour you log lands in the right place.

Because of that, Phased can show you how much of each budget is used and what the project pays per hour. No exports, and no matching hours against a quote by hand.

How a job is set up

What your hours tell you

Step 1 · Set the price

Give every phase its own price.

Start from what you agreed with the client. Use one budget for the whole job, split the fee across phases, or leave the budget empty and track hours only.

A phase budget can be money or hours. Phased converts it at your rate, so you always see both: what the phase pays and how many hours that buys.

Step 2 · Log the hours

Drag your hours onto the week.

Drag across the calendar to log a block, or start the timer when you don't know the end yet. Did the same work again? Duplicate the entry instead of drawing it twice. Every entry has a project and a phase from the moment you create it, so nothing waits to be sorted on Friday.

It works on your phone too, one day at a time. In Chrome or Edge on a computer, the running timer can also float in a small window above your other apps.

Time tracking
Step 3 · Watch the budget

Spot an overrun while you can still fix it.

As you log time, each budget shows On track, Approaching or Over budget, plus the money and hours left. You find out mid-project, not after the job is closed.

Most trackers just add up the hours. Phased puts them next to the price they have to fit, and updates with every entry.

Profitability
Step 4 · See your real rate

Finish early, and your hourly rate goes up.

If a phase has a budget, that budget is its price. Divide it by the hours you actually spent and you get your effective rate: what the work really paid per hour.

Finish faster than planned and the rate goes up. Run over and it goes down. Either way, you see it while there's still time to act.

Step 5 · Send the report

A clear report, with extra work on its own line.

When a client asks for more than you agreed, mark those entries as out of scope. They stop eating into the original budget, and the client report lists them as Additional Work, with their own hours and amount.

Once created, a report doesn't change. Edit an entry later and the report you sent stays exactly as it was. Your effective rate, budget health and internal notes never show up on the client's copy.

Client reports

Small things that save you time

Your rate, set once

Set your usual rate once. On Pro, a project or a single phase can have its own, and the most specific one wins.

Projects & phases

Templates for repeat work

Save a project you set up well and start the next one from it. Templates are part of Pro.

Templates & tasks

Task names that come back

Task names you type are saved and offered again in the phase they belong to.

Templates & tasks

Filter and export your time

Filter your time by client, project or phase, then download a CSV or save it as a Time Report.

Time review

On your phone, in your language

The same app on your phone, in English or German, with nothing to install.

On your phone

Common questions

Do I have to split every project into phases?

No. Keep a project simple, with one budget for the whole job, or split it into phases when parts of the job are priced separately. Name the phases the way your own work runs.

What if I bill by the hour?

Leave the budget empty. Your work is then valued at hours times your rate, and there is no budget to warn you about. Add a budget when you agree a fixed price.

Can my client see my effective rate?

No. A client report shows the work, the hours and the amounts. Your effective rate, budget health and internal notes are never included.

Do I need to install anything?

No. Phased runs in the browser on a computer or a phone. In Chrome or Edge on a computer, the running timer can also float in a small window above your other apps.

What is free, and what needs Pro?

Free covers the calendar, timer, tasks, clients, hour budgets and Time Reports, for up to three active projects with two phases each. Pro adds money budgets, budget health, effective rates, priced Additional Work, Phase and Project Reports with your letterhead, and templates. During the beta, every account has Pro for free, with no card.

Can I take my data with me?

Yes, on every plan. Download a CSV from the Time page, or a full JSON export of everything you own.

Can my team or my client log in?

No. Phased is built for one person. Your clients get PDF reports, not accounts.

One person, one price.

Phased is free during the beta, with every Pro feature. After the beta, Free includes the calendar, timer, three active projects with two phases each, tasks, time budgets, Time Reports, and data exports. Pro will be €7 a month or €66 a year. It removes the project and phase limits and adds money budgets, budget health, effective rates, priced Additional Work, Phase and Project Reports, and your own letterhead.